date:Jul 18, 2014
's woes to end in July. He forecast a 1.8 percent decline in July same-restaurant sales.
Worries are growing that overall U.S. restaurant industry sales did not bounce back from a dismal first quarter, when an Arctic blast of severe weather crushed results.
U.S. restaurant same-store sales rose just 0.3 percent in the second quarter, just a slight improvement from the 0.2 percent decline in the first quarter, said Wallace Doolin, chief executive at Black Box Intelligence, which tracks 19,000 r